Marathon Match Tips

Marathon Matches (MMs) have a long history back to 2005 when only SRMs existed on Topcoder. It came as an idea from one of our first community members Running Wild to have a ‘week long contests’ for algorithm problems.

Visualizers

One of the most important tools in a Marathon Match is a visualizer – a program which allows the participant to run their solution locally and to get a visual representation of its performance (without the visual component it’s called a local tester).